[US] Social Security Administration Ceases Letter Forwarding Program

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen

Since 1945 the US Social Security Administration provided
the service of forwarding a letter to a missing person under circumstances
involving a matter of great importance, such as a death or serious illness in
the missing person's immediate family, or a sizeable amount of money that is
due the missing person. To read what they did go to: http://www.ssa.gov/foia/html/ltrfwding.htm.

The Social Security Administration noticed in the Federal
Register on April 17 that this service is being terminated effective May 19,
2014. The reasons given was in recent years the internet provided locator
resources through social media, websites and pay for locator services. They
noted it is a cost-saving mechanism and in line with the Internal Revenue
Service, which terminated their letter forwarding service August 31, 2012.To read the notice go to: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-04-17/pdf/2014-08808.pdf

Thank you to Ken Ryesky, Member, IAJGS Public Records
Access Monitoring Committee for alerting us to this announcement.